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World in brief: February 20, 2024

FRANCE: A strike at the Eiffel Tower over poor financial management turned away visitors today for the second consecutive day.

The strike aims to increase salaries in proportion to the incoming revenue from ticket sales to the attraction.

SERBIA: A car crash in southern Serbia has killed three migrants and injured 11 others, and the driver was detained for suspected people smuggling, police in the Balkan country said today.

The accident occurred late on Monday in southern Serbia, near the border with North Macedonia. 

GUINEA:  Military leaders in Guinea dissolved the government on Monday without explanation, saying they will appoint a new one, the presidency’s secretary general General Amara Camara said.

The military has been in power in the country since 2021. Ousted junta chief Colonel Mamady Doumbouya had promised elections by the end of this year.

EL SALVADOR: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced on Monday.

Officials announced that New Ideas won 54 of the 60 congressional seats. 

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